DON’T bother dissecting his new Iraq War series for signs of a political point of view, advises producer Steven Bochco.

It just isn’t there, he insists in an interview about the show, called “Over There” and scheduled to premiere on FX in July. It is not TV’s first drama series about war, but it is the first one to be produced about a war while that war is still going on.

And since this war is particularly controversial, Bochco – the widely known producer of “Hill Street Blues,” “L.A. Law,” “NYPD Blue” and other shows – is well aware of the attention this new show is bound to attract.

“It is a drama about this war, but it’s a drama about soldiers as opposed to principles, politics or policy,” Bochco said on the phone from California late last week. “And, to the extent that it’s about soldiers, it can be about any war.

“[This show] is about the Iraqi War. But I think anyone looking for an overt or subtle political commentary is going to be disappointed. And, I think to the extent that people may find or believe they have found a political bias or commentary in there, I think that will probably say more about their need to impose it on what we’re doing than our need to express it.”

Filmed in the deserts of California, “Over There” tells the story of six soldiers – four men and two women – and their tough-as-nails sergeant. Of the relatively unknown cast, some viewers will recognize Erik Palladino (as Sgt. Scream) from “ER” and the rapper/actor Sticky Fingaz, now credited as Kirk “Sticky” Jones, from another FX series, “The Shield,” where he played a gang banger. On “Over There,” he plays a pothead private nicknamed “Smoke.”

“Over There” is Bochco’s first-ever series for cable TV-“a liberating environment creatively,” he says, “because you can access much more realistic language and a degree of violence that I think is absolutely essential in the depiction of war.”

Production on the series’ remaining 12 episodes out of 13 (including the previously produced pilot) began two weeks ago. Episode 3 is now underway.

Working alongside Bochco as an executive producer is Chris Gerolmo, the screenwriter of “Mississippi Burning,” who wrote and directed the pilot for “Over There” and also wrote (and sings) the series’ theme song.

The song-with its lyrics, “They’re goin’ over there, where someone has to die”-might be construed by some as a protest song.

But at the same time, the show’s title is inspired by the original “Over There,” the patriotic song written by George M. Cohan in 1917 as America prepared to enter World War I.

A look at the pilot episode reveals how the producers are striving for a sense of balance. For example, in a video e-mail to his wife back home, one private remarks that he and everyone else fighting in the war are “monsters.” Then he also tells her, “But there’s a kind of honor in it too, a kind of grace.”

Bochco admitted he was reluctant at first to take on the project after he was approached by FX.

“My first, almost kneejerk response was, I’ve never been in the military,” Bochco said. “And what they pointed out to me was, well, you’ve never been a cop either.